The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-02-05
H OF ST. LANDRY, La, FEBRUARY
Items of Interest.

A project is on foot to build railroad from
JeaDerette to AbbeVille.
Telegrams from Washington announce that
Mr. A. L. D. Conrad has been appointed Post
Master of Baton Rouee.
Tie Lake .Bergne Oatlet advocates have
started a big newspaper to advance their
theories and interests.
Rev A. e. p. Albert, colored, of this State,
is being urged as ministertO Liberia, posi-
ton made vacant by the death of Rev. Mr..
Hopkins.
A girl working in one of the mills at Bid
deford, Me-, is the thirty child of the
same father and mother. Twenty-three of
her brothers and sisters still live.
The Methodists of Louisiana have 224
churches, worth $3.50 ,740, and So parsonages,
worth $44 1896. The value of the school prop
erty belonging to the denomination is $27 600.
Alexandria Democrat, Feb =: Iu the U. S.
District Court here on Monday the case of the
United States VS.. Il. NJ. Satcher, for sending
an obscene letter through the mails was tried.
The accused was found guilty and fined $loO,
in default of payment of which to be lmpris'
oned in Jail 80 days.
The. State Agricultural Convention which
met i'll Baton Rouge last week was success:
The following named gentlemen were elected
officers: President, Gen. J. L. Brent, OF Ascen-
sion; President J. M. Foster, Of Caddo !;
Rouge; Treasurer, w. Garig, of East Baton
Rouge. st. Landry was not represented.
Lake Charles Echo: If the reform -
press of the State would urge little more
cropping in their parishes and have less to
say in condemnation of Gov. McEnery for
calling agricultural conventions when solicit.
ed by the people to so do, perhaps their sub
scription lists might take boom.
A Goldfish war with the Dominion would be
s.zok aSrNrn hnvp q III
Europe is preparing to illuminate the heavens
with the fire of battle, but if Messrs. Hoar
aud Frye and Ingalls, say we must have 1T, we
suppose we must. 1t will dispose OF the sur
plus question for the present by disposing OF
the surplus.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dem.
NO Times Democrat: The Board OF Ad'
ministrators of Tulane University have pur.
chased tue property corner OF Deiord and
Camp streets, for girls college, in conaec.
fion with said institution. The funds used
were portion of the 100000 recently donat
ed to the Tulane University by Mrs. Newcomb,
formerly of this city, but now residing i'll New
York City, and have been expended Ill accord
ance with the donors wishes,
The new South is stirring, tapping huge
veins of coal aud subterranean lakes of pc
troleum in Texas, digging for iron ore and
Georgia and factories in Alabama, and urg-
ing Tennessee to the development ot her
wonderful mineral resources. The American
must work and in the fresh fields of labor
offered below Mason and Dixon's line he is
finding at present the richest rewards.-
Philadelphia Record, Ind
Rayne Signal: The organization of the
parish is beginning to assume definite shape.
The police Jury has framed and adopted or
dinances elected "a parish treasurer; ap-
pointed committees to lay ont public roads
and appointed road uverseers; and i'll u few
weeks the election will take place and the
parish be provided with her full complement
of officers. The organization will then be
complete and Acadia will take her allotted
positiou in the sisterhood of parishes.
Secretary OF State Oscar Arroyo has pub
lished the following tabalation Of the regis.
tered vote of this State: Total number of vot-
ers in the State, 222 236; of native birth, 203,.
489 foreign birth, 1871; white voters, Ill !,
79l; colored voters, Ito, ,445; white voters who
write their names, 1856; white voters who
make their marks, 20,464; colored voters who
write their names, 1850; colored voters who
make their marks, 81 ,9H.
There are five railroads projected from Ar
kansas into North Louisiana: two are to rui
from Hope station and Camden respectively
to Shreveport another is to run from some
point on the Iron Mountain through Claiborne
| parish, then South to Alexandria, crossing tbs
Vicksbarg, Shreveport and Pacific road a.
Gibbsland; fourth S- the gFeut Nortu ahs
| South road from Fort Scott, ksa4, to Matches
crossing the yicksburg, Shreveport and Paei
| fic at Monroe; q fifth gees from some point il
South Arkansas to Natchez, crossing th
| Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific at or nea
Rayville. Times.
! Capitolan Advocate: Having worked" tn
| Witkowski matter to it's hearts content, tn
| Shreveport Times has fallen back upon th
worn out gag that Gov. MeEnery is CONTROL
| ed by coterie of friends. If our contempe
] rary was not SO fresh in State politics h
would bethink himself that it has been th
fashion in Louisiana since time immemorial t
charge every Governor with the same thing
| In Governor Nichols time Messrs. Handy
Cage, Goode, Minor, Bond and one or two 9th
ers, were the ones who were credited wit
running the government. While the lamente
WIltz was Governor, his deceased uncle wa
/ the man whom the knowing ones used to credi
| with being the power behind the throne
| Should the candidate of his cheice be eleetet
il would doubtless be brother Puckette's tur
I to be made the ruler of the whole ''navee," b
! the opposition. Meanwhile, our friend an
! brother journalist should tell all such thing
/ 10 the marines